page_title: TU Wien
section_title: Notable faculty and alumni
hierarchical_section_title: TU Wien / Notable faculty and alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Kuppelsaal (cupola hall) of the Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz, 4th district of Vienna Deutsch: Kuppelsaal der Technischen Universität Wien, Karlsplatz, Wien Wieden Français&#160;: Kuppelsaal (salle de la coupole) de l'Université technique de Vienne, Karlsplatz, 4e district de Vienne &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 17445 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata)
context_page_description: TU Wien is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university has received extensive international and domestic recognition in teaching as well as in research, and it is a highly esteemed partner of innovation-oriented enterprises. It currently has about 28,100 students, eight faculties and about 5,000 staff members.
  The university's teaching and research is focused on engineering, computer science, and natural sciences. The university's educational offerings have achieved wide international and domestic recognition.
context_section_description: Siegfried Becher (1806–1873), professor of economics
  Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860–1939), Hungarian mechanical engineer
  Günter Blöschl (born 1961), Austrian hydrologist
  Silke Bühler-Paschen, professor of physics
  Christian Andreas Doppler, (1803–1853), Austrian mathematician and physicist
  Hugo Ehrlich (1879–1936), Croatian architect
  Paul Eisler (1907–1992), inventor of the printed circuit
  Tillman Gerngross, Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, leading entrepreneur and bioengineer, founder of GlycoFi and Adimab
  Ernst Hiesmayr (1920-2006), architect, artist and former rector of the Technical University Vienna
  Princess Marie-Therese of Hohenberg, Austrian architect and princess (born 1972)
  Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (1903–1992), Austrian locomotive designer and engineer
  Karl Gölsdorf (1861–1916), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer
  Edmund Hlawka (1916-2009), Austrian mathematician
  Ingeborg Hochmair (born 1953), electrical engineer, developed the first microelectronic, multi-channel cochlear implant
  Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), inventor of the Kaplan turbine
  Leon Kellner, grammarian, Shakespearean, and Zionist
  Hermann Knoflacher (born 1940), Austrian engineer
  Benno Mengele (1898–1971), Austrian electrical engineer
  Milutin Milanković (1879–1958), Serbian geophysicist and civil engineer
  Yordan Milanov (1867–1932), one of the leading Bulgarian architects from the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
  Richard von Mises (1883–1953), scientist
  Hubert Petschnigg (1913–1997), architect (completed his studies at TU Graz)
  Ferdinand Piëch (born 1937), Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who is currently the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group
  Franz Pitzinger (1858–1933), Constructor General of the Austrian Navy
  Herman Potočnik (1892–1929), Slovene space pioneer
  Alfred Preis (1911–1993), designer of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor
  Zvonimir Richtmann (1901–1941), Croatian physicist, philosopher, politician and publicist
  Peter Schattschneider (1950), Austrian physicist
  Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887–1953), early Modern architect
  Paul Schneider-Esleben (1915–2005), visiting professor of architecture
  Edo Šen (1877–1949), Croatian architect
  Camillo Sitte (1843-1903), Austrian architect
  Peter Skalicky (born 1941), rector of the Vienna University of Technology from 1991-2011
  Irfan Skiljan, author of the image viewer software Irfanview
  Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), Austrian mathematician
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Austrian philosopher and transdisciplinary researcher
  Jörg Streli (1940–2019), Austrian architect
  Gottfried Ungerboeck (1940), inventor of trellis modulation, IBM Fellow
  Milan Vidmar (1885-1962), Slovene electrical engineer
  Ina Wagner (born 1946), Austrian physicist, sociologist, professor of computer science 1987 – 2011, TU's second ever female professor
  Hannspeter Winter (1941-2006), Austrian plasma physicist
  Heinz Zemanek (1920-2014), Austrian computer pioneer
caption: Kuppelsaal (cupola hall) of TU Wien
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